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$TIBBIR
The Easter Egg of Silicon Valley🥚
🐸 Conviction level: 5/5
🐸 Narrative: AI-powered VC
🐸 Trench call: 400k | now 10M mcap
"As part of Ribbit Capital, I've seen growing interest in
$tibbir from notable investors, including Rob Hadick from Dragonfly Digital Management."
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@ribbita2012
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Are VCs shifting towards AI-based Investing?
Ribbit Capital: Driving Innovation in Fintech and Beyond
Let’s look into Ribbit Capital a little before we dive any deeper. Ribbit Cap is one of the most prestigious venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Founded in 2012 by
@mickymalka. Currently, they have approx $12 Billion in assets under management.
They were one of the first investors in Coinbase. In 2013, Ribbit Capital helped Coinbase close its first Institutional Round (series A).
They're also major backers/investors of:
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@RobinhoodApp
- @RevolutApp
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@Uniswap
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@creditkarma
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The Visionary Behind Ribbit Capital
Micky Malka has more than a great reputation in Silicon Valley. He is ranked as the second-best VC on the Forbes “Midas” list.
As one of the early investors in Robinhood, he is part of the Board of Directors of
$HOOD, but through Ribbit, he also owns a stake of 46.5 million shares worth approx $2.2 billion.
If that wouldn’t be bullish enough, Micky himself filed for a new trust, which he named “Tibbir Trust,” a created TIBBIR Holdings LLC a few weeks prior to launching
$TIBBIR on Virtuals.
Funnily, “TIBBIR Trust”, manages an additional 102,183 shares of Robinhood, worth about 5.1 million dollars.
Throwback to when we had the
$GME / Gamestop Saga…
Guess who helped Robinhood not go out of business? You guessed it! Our buddies at Ribbit Capital.
How? They led a $3.4 billion emergency funding round for Robinhood, solidifying their position even more as one of their biggest backer.
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After watching interviews and listening to podcasts with Micky, I understood that his vision goes beyond wins or profits. He measures success in impact. He helped multiple entrepreneurs turn their vision into a multi-billion dollar company that has redefined industries.
Whether it’s crypto, trading platforms, or DEFAI, he is always ahead of the curve.
Considering the fact he has a personal relationship with the founders of leading AI and crypto companies, he has probably been on the
#DEFAI wave way before any of us here.
So far, if Micky Malka got behind a project, the odds of it being a winner have skyrocketed.
Now imagine him launching his own AI agent on
@virtuals_io …
What are the odds? Let's see...
Micky Malka’s track record of staying ahead in fintech and crypto makes it almost certain he’s gearing up to drop something big:
$TIBBIR, an AI-driven VC agent. Ribbit Capital’s motto
“Fintech is Dead. Long Live the New Fintech” shows they’re all about evolution—and $TIBBIR is the next logical step as fintech, crypto, and AI merge into one ecosystem.
He embodies the Adapt Fast or Get Left Behind mindset.
In the interview I watched from "Endeavor Globa", Malka mentions AI Agents, another thing that he highlights is: In order to be and stay a successful VC you must learn to adapt, FAST.
After digging a little deeper into his social circle, the founders of companies he is related to, and the other top VCs, I came to the conclusion that the “Silicon Valley founder/VC bubble” he is in DEEP, including the founders of the leading AI and crypto companies.
He also attended the latest Hackathon, which he SPONSORED next to Solana, Robinhood, OpenAi…
Guess what the theme of that Hackathon was…
“Hacking for Agentic Finance”
$TIBBIR would fit perfectly into Ribbit Capital's next move, not to mention their perfect timing.
Few examples:
- Brian Armstrong, as one of the first believers and investors in Coinbase, with a stake of 1.7% approx
- Dan Morehead, Pantera Capital. $5.2 Billion in assets under management
- Vlad Tenev, Founder and CEO of
@Robinhood
and a whole lot more, but I’ll leave a picture below of more connections.
While
@ribbita2012 tried to avoid questions related to his connection to Ribbit Capital and Micky Malka, the community eventually managed to squeeze it out of him/them.
In case you still doubt that $TIBBIR is not linked to Micky Malka or Ribbit, I invite you to read the proofs below collected by the detectives of the community:
1 - Mickym.eth and Kanbas.eth are both tied to Micky Malka. Kanbas is the wallet where he stores his NFTs. An NFT he owns is “Squiggle” and guess who had a “Squiggle” PFP not long ago before
$TIBBIR was launched… Yes, Micky Malka.
2 - Mickym.eth funded the dev wallet on virtual.
3 - SEC Fillings from Micky Malka. 3 different ones, the first one being filed on 10/10/24, the second one on 11/08/2024, and the third and last one I’m aware of was on the 3rd of January. Literally a week before launching
$TIBBIR on virtual
4 - I doubt all 10+ X accounts of VCs and Employees could have been hacked or followed the same frog with glasses coincidentally.
5 - 102,000 has been transferred to Tibbir Trust, worth about $5 million dollars.
6. A list of the VC’s and Ribbit Employees that “accidentally” follows
@Ribbita2012. The list started getting larger day by day.
I Nick Shalek -
@nshalek General Partner at Ribbit Capital, also the second highest ranking person at Ribbit. more than enough imo but in case he was hacked… I have a few more people from Ribbit Capital on this list
I Zack Rosen -
@zackrosen_ (Ribbit Capital)
I Eva Alonso -
@evamalonsor (Ribbit Capital)
I Rob Hadick -
@HadickM
VC, General Partner at
@dragonflyvc and Previously investing and advising at GoldenTree,
@GoldmanSach, and
@PJTPartners. (Bought $67k worth of
$TIBBIR so far in the mast few days)
I Gengmo Qi
@0xsudogm, Another investor at
@dragonflyvc, also Ex Engineer
@chainlink
I Jonathan King
@jonathankingvc - Investor
@cbventures
I Grace Deng
@gracedengx investor at
@SevenXVentures manages a portfolio of 120 projects.
- assets under management = $300 million.
I Joshua Lim
@joshua_j_lim, Co-founder at
@arbelosxyz a trading firm
@Jacob Mullins - Managing Director
@Shasta (early-stage venture capital firm with a little over a billion dollars under management)
I Nathalie Yang
@lazysailormoon: VC, Angel Investor, ex Binance
Either all of them were hacked, or they followed a shillbot/chatbot frog with glasses.
OR
They have been told to follow it in their VC / Investment / Funds / etc circle... and something much bigger is being cooked behind the scenes...
I have made my bet on the latter one.
What roles their agent will fulfill remains a question; I'd say AI-based VC investing is the most obvious next step... so maybe we can soon shill tickers for the frog?
All in all, there are no guarantees in life, but in this case, I would much rather be wrong than miss out on this run if my thesis above is correct.
$tibbir /
$ribbit CA:
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